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I am ashamed that I am really burying my head in the sand. I cannot click on the links to the photos of the animals, I cannot stomach the seeming futility of it all. I've been unable to process how I feel and where my anger really belongs. Someone read a question from AdAge today that asked if, as people in the marketing sector, we would work in any capacity for BP now—I knew my answer was no, yet that feels wrong. I just doubt the ability to influence change there.We have one car. We try to be sensitive to the world around us, I just wish I could do more.

I am already too shocked and saddened by this unbelievable tragedy. I guess I'm ignorant but it seems these things should have some kind of "off" switch. I am glad that drilling off Virginia has been cancelled for the foreseeable future but really, how are we, as a species, so fucking stupid? It just makes me crazy. I can't watch any news footage or look at any pictures of devestation because my imagination - and the reports I hear on NPR - are depressing me enough as it is.

Riffing off (The !!Amazing!!) Randy Prescott of BP, "Meh, the mid-Atlantic states aren't the only place with people."

Here is something easy ANYONE can do (even those with their heads in the sand): Boycott BP. Really. That simple. Their bond rating has already gone down. And if you have Sunoco stations near you (sadly, they don't have a presence in Iowa), support them instead.

Considering that the leak will likely keep leaking until mid-August, this is only the beginning of the spread. I think the entire Atlantic is going to feel the reverberations of this before it is through. Fish while you can, folks, fish while you can.

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